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CONDENSED INTELLIGENCE

... Since tbe opening ofthe Glasgow and Ayr Railway, from Ayr to Irvine, 2500 people have travelled six days, where only one-horse omnibus existed befoie! -It stated tbat not less than three thousand persons are at present engaged in counterfeiting and uttering ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1839
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1188 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sir R. Vyvyan, Bart., Tielowarren, is the High Sheriff'far Cornwall. We call attention to the notice containing ..

... unfortunately, not detained the time. Ottery St. Mary.—We hear that Messrs. R. Broom, & Co., have commenced running two-horse Omnibus from Honiton to Exeter, daily, taking Ottery St. Mary 3 days a week, (viz.:) Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, leaving ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1840
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 2254 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE Commissioners in a Fiat in Bankruptcy, bearing date the Twenty-third day of July, One Thousand Eight ..

... Bristol, ONE NEW PAIR HORSE OMNIBUS, built very light and strong, to carry 10 or 12 inside and 6 out«ide. ONE Ditto SECOND HAND, nearly as good as New. having been very little used.—To be Sold a bargain, ONE Light One Horse OMNIBUS in good condition. FORDTON ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1842
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 647 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL FAIRS and MARKETS

... made by subscription, is now completed, on a graduated ascent of one in 13, to avoid the very hijl the old road. A two-horse omnibus has commenced running between this place and Saltash, for the accommodation of summer visitors to this • watering place ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1845
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1503 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AWFUL CATASTROPHE.—AN OMNIBUS BUN OVER BIDEFORD QUAY. AND EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED IN IT

... persons from that place had assembled the quay about a qusrter before seven o'clock in the eseuing, to return home in a one-horse omnibus (called'most infelicitously, has turned out, tbe •• Safety omnibus), of which George Bowdcn, common carrier from Torriogton ...

Published: Thursday 18 February 1847
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5251 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GREAT MUSICAL EVENT. ENGAGEMENT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GERMAN VOCALIST HERR PISCHEK, AND M. JULLIEN'S Unrivalled ..

... places, and also has the pleasure to acquaint them, conformity with modern times and improvements, he has started a PAIR HORSE OMNIBUS, called THE ALBERT, Built on a light construction, and performs the distance in one hour and a quarter. He assures his ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1847
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1475 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CASTLE OF EXETER-Friday

... with a breacnofthe excise (or Inland Revenue) laws. Mr. G. W. Turner conducted the prosecution. Defendant running a two horse omnibus on the road to Launceston, and on the 19th ot March, Mr. D. G. Blinn, an excise otneer, travelled by it as cassenger, and ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1849
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1304 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

County Intelligence

... Intelligence. At the Castle of Exeter, on Friday last, before the county magistrates, William Hodge, the driver of a two-horse omnibus between Launccston and Exeter, was fined £ 5 and expenses, on the information of excise officer (Mr. Blinn), for driving ...

Published: Thursday 17 May 1849
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1135 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... Accommodation.—Last week, Mr. i. Langsford, enterprising fly and Bath-chair proprietor of this town, started a new one-horse omnibus, called rrince, to run daily between Crediton and Exeter, that we have now three omnibuses running daily between these ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1849
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2158 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BARNSTAPLE IMPROVEMENT ACT

... which was carried nem. con., and the meeting adjourned to the 9th July. Accident. —On Friday last, as Richards's pair -horse omnibus was on its return journey from Barnstaple to Lynton, having decended the hill near Arlington, and turning a corner in the ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1850
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2481 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Advertisements & Notices

... a good staunch and useful black Cart Horse; a very neat and strong pair- horse Omnibus, with crank axles, nearly new, carries 15 people (with extra seat); a single-horse Omnibus in good condition, carries ten people; a useful light and strong Spring Van ...

A £600 LIFE POLICY FOR SALE, , rN a first-rate Office, viz., The Imperial. Annual Premium about £20, due 31st

... or g hSness • good staunch and useful black Cart Horse* very neat strong pair-horse Omnibus with cranl axles, carries fifteen people (with extra seat); as ngle-horse Omnibus good condition, carries ten people; a useful, light, and strong Spring Van carries ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1851
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 684 | Page: 4 | Tags: none